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Watercolor Techniques for Creating Children's Book Illustrations

By Lorraine Watry

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2019
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About this lesson

Lorraine Watry demonstrates a layered watercolor workflow for a children's book page: starting with value sketches for light direction, building color through glazes, choosing granular pigments like Tiger's Eye Genuine for texture, and darkening corners with Indigo to direct the eye.